Znodis from The Mystic Hunter has honored me with a drinking game! It’s really great — I just love it.

Some of my favorite rules:

• About the Name That Pet posts: “If you have a dwarf hunter, you are required to chug twice, /sigh, and then post a long rambling comment about that one pet you tamed and then foolishly abandon later, but never actually include either of those details in the post. One of the other commenter’s owes you a drink and a /pat, if you somehow manage to include the name of the pet in the post.”
• “Take a drink if the post is about some random minutia and she neglected something more important to investigate it.” That’s me, all right!

Also check out the great drinking games he created for hunters:

• The shaman gear drinking game
• The BRK drinking game
• The AotH drinking game

I wondered why I was running out of mana constantly while lackadaisically puttering around doing dailies today. Apparently there’s been an unintended (or at least unmentioned-in-the-patch-notes) change to mana regen that is affecting hunters. (Once I read about this and thought to look, I noticed that my own out-of-combat mana regen went from [edit: I was off by 5] 85 to 48.)

(Note: I try to avoid the more inflammatory and/or panicky hunter memes, but since I did honestly notice this change myself today, and since I was honestly puzzled about what was going on, it seems valuable to share.)

Patch 2.4 is now live and the servers are coming up as I write this. The major highlights of this patch include:

• A new level 70 ravager to tame: the Razorthorn Ravager! You can find this green gem on Razorthorn Rise, on the border between Hellfire Peninsula and Terokkar Forest.
• Sunwell Isle: A new level 70 zone chock full of daily quests, with it’s own instance and raid dungeon.
• New profession-based daily quests level 70s.
• Major improvements to combat options and the options interface.

As usual, you can find full patch notes on Blizzard’s patch note page. I’ll copy the hunter bits (and other interesting bits) below.

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Forgive me for the hit-and-run posting, but I wanted to share two things very quickly:

1. The 2.4.0 Test Realms (both PTR and TTR) have closed for good, and Blizzard has announced extended maintenance tomorrow. So we’re looking good for a 2.4 launch in the morning.
2. After some extreme finagling on my part, I think I am once again in a state where I can update Petopia. But I’m not certain.

Putting these two things together: I beg your forbearance if it takes me a bit to get updated for Patch 2.4 tomorrow. Luckily, there’s only one new pet that I’m aware of at this point: the Razorthorn Ravager.

Technical details about my finagling follow. Feel free to skip them.

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It’s Noblegarden! Don’t forget to spend way too much time tramping about the newbie areas searching for that elusive pink dress and accidentally slaughtering bunnies!